Did Elon Musk jump the gun over his announcement to take Tesla private?

Goldman Sachs hadn't been formally tapped as a financial adviser by Tesla when Musk revealed he may take the electric-car maker off the market and said he'd secured the funding to do so

A week after Elon Musk shocked the markets by proclaiming Tesla Inc. may become a private company, evidence has piled up that the mercurial chief executive officer was tweeting too soon.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. hadn’t been formally tapped as a financial adviser by Tesla Inc.’s CEO when Musk revealed he may take the electric-car maker off the market and said he’d secured the funding to do so, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The bank and private equity firm Silver Lake still hadn’t officially signed on when Musk said on Twitter late Monday that he was working with